Ting Chen

This paper advances a generative ontology with minimal commitments that unifies Classical Logic and Hegelian Dialectics while simultaneously dissolving the Problem of Other Minds and providing an non-dogmatic ontological grounding for Structural Realism. Inspired by phenomenology and radical constructivism, the framework takes as its sole starting point the indubitable fact that cognition is occurring, together with two operational primitives—demarcation and anchoring—that generate and sustain objectivity. Objectivity is thereby shown to be generated by cognition rather than presupposed. Cognition itself, however, is grounded in the transcendentally deduced Possibility of Directedness (POD), whose properties are deduced from the fundamental cognitive limitations in cognizing its own ontological ground. All traditional categories—space, time, subject, object, reason, consciousness, language, and more—are subsequently derived from and grounded in POD. Within this ontology, Classical Logic functions as the morphology of cognitive success in object-generation, while Hegelian Dialectics functions as the dynamics of cognitive failure in object-sustenance. From the constraints of POD it follows that a single cognition with no possibility of future new cognitions is metaphysically impossible. Solipsism is thus ruled out, not by analogical inference or empirical evidence, but solely by the conditions that make cognition itself possible. Keywords: Classical Logic; contradiction; Dialectics; objectivity; identity; Problem of Other Minds